Warcraft - From The Screen To The Board

Thanks to OgreCave for their article discussing the imminent arrival of the Warcraft-licensed board game, adapting Blizzard's classic RTS series for paper-gaming. They point to a new article on maker Fantasy Flight Games' site, where "...designer Kevin Wilson described his desire to have an endless variety of scenarios for the game, and how victory points and interchangable board pieces will make it possible." The game itself, shipping later this month, will have "13 board sections alone, helping bring the game's component count to over 400 pieces", but despite the large amount of units, an earlier article describes the design goal: "...to create a fun, relatively simple game that could be played in under 2 hours while still capturing enough of Warcraft's charm to have players yelling 'Zug zug!' and 'At your command, my Lord!'"

Warhammer?

[array_one]

If anything, this will just get more people interested in Warhammer.

Re:Warhammer?

[schild]

Not likely. That's the sole purpose of it taking under 2 hours. I used to play Warhammer and let me just say that those games could feel like epic games of Risk in the days of yore. I for one would be glad to try out a Warcraft board game played like Warhammer as I have a good feeling it would be more fast paced and strategies could involve hundreds of pieces rather easily. That is to say, damn Blizzard is gonna make some cash money on this. Of course, getting me back to a warhammer like board game would be

Re:Warhammer?

[hibiki_r]

I really don't think so. This game seems to have nothing to do with a standard miniature game like warhammer. In fact, just the price difference makes the games completely different. A $30-$50 game is very different from spending a few hundred dollars per player, + the time investment of painting the miniatures, which appeals to some people, but is a no-no to many others.

Warcraft does take a lot of artwork and race design from Warhammer, but the game mechanics have nothing to do with each other. Thus, a Wa

Two things

[misuba]

1) To others in the thread that claim that Warcraft and Starcraft rip off Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, respectively: this rings about as hollow as White Wolf's recent suit against the producers of Underworld. Both are actually ripping off a common source - in this case, Tolkien - and unless you can make a case for more specific infringement, that's the rightful end of it.

2) If a Warcraft board game will make Warcraft fans flock to Warhammer, why didn't Starcraft make Warcraft players pick up, say, Master of

Re:Sad

[ZzzzSleep]

Quoth HunterZ:

If noone is going to read these, then the time is better spent bringing us other kinds of news, IMHO.

Hey! Just because we lurkers don't post, doesn't mean that we're not interested in games news.
/me turns lurk mode on again.

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Re:Sad

[Terminal Saint]

No one reads it? Bah. Hell, I've got games.slashdot.org as my homepage.

Re:Sad

[HunterZ]

:D Thanks for chiming in everyone. I'm mystified that there are so few replies to every Games category article that I see, so I assume that they don't show up in the main list in the middle of the main slashdot.org page in AC mode (or maybe it's disabled in the default settings for registered users?). At any rate, something is amiss, but I'm glad to here that there are others out there (even if it cost me some karma to find them ;)

Re:Sad

[simoniker]

Sorry, noticed this late - yes, the Games subsection is only intended to be read by clickin the 'Games' section link on the left of the main page, so we get many fewer (but still significant amounts) of comments. Yay.

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Re:Starcraft boardgame

[array_one]

starcraft is just a glorified ripoff of warhammer 40,000. you can find it here: www.games-workshop.com In case you dont notice right away, tyranids == zerg, space marines == terrans, eldar == protoss.

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Re:Starcraft boardgame

[Drey]

There /was/ an adaptation of StarCraft for TSR's Alternity setting.

Oh, cruel fate!

[Decaffeinated Jedi]

What kind of world do we live in where a Warcraft boardgame is going to see the light of day and Warcraft Adventures [warcraftiii.net] was canceled half-way through its production?

Diversification

[etherlad]

Wow, an MMORPG [blizzard.com] coming out, a pen-and-paper [warcraftrpg.com] RPG from the good people at White Wolf, and now a board game. Blizzard's really putting their brand in as many pots as they can. Wonder if it'll pay off?

Re:Diversification

[rabbit994]

Oh, the computer side will probably pay off big. Blizzard always does well with it's games.
Don't know about the RPG and board game. Doesn't matter, if it flops it doesn't hurt them anyways.

Alternative to WC Boardgame...

[Tech Paradox]

Alternatively, you could go get a boxed set of Warhammer and play the game that the entire Warcraft universe ripped off...

wc

[B33R N1NJ4]

So instead of players shouting "LAG!" or "Disconnected?!?!" They're shouting misc stuff "Me so horned, he hurt you long time" I see this as just warhammer with different styles of units. For people wanting starcraft... Warhammer 40k.. A lot of dice, measurements, etc. It'd be fun though to see Huntress's just appear out of nowhere from my ancient of war. I'd buy it, if it came pre-painted.

Re:wc

[Incoherent07]

No, I'd be shouting...

"Join the army, they said."
"See the world, they said."
"I'd rather be sailing."

"Who wants to sing?"

Bonus points to the first person to tell me the source of those two sets of quotes...

Re:wc

[wcbarksdale]

RTFA. It's not a miniatures game, it's a board game with little wooden pieces.

Settlers of Catan

[Brown Eggs]

Did anyone hear Victory Point, see the board, and immediately think of Settlers of Catan? A funny "coincidence"